Retaliation Against Cop For Reporting Police Brutality

Because of numerous reports of police brutality and use of excessive force, many have asked why the good cops do not report the bad ones.

I no longer need to address that in the comment section of this blog.

Now former Baltimore police detective Joe Crystal tells his story in the following video. Joe has sued both the Baltimore Police Department and the police commissioner for not protecting him from retaliation.

Shame on me for my anti-cop mentality. I know there must be more good ones than bad, but those bad ones are soooo bad, and those that would not help him when he needed backup… bless his soul. I hope he is successful!

I’m proud of him for speaking up.
Hopefully, like he said others will too.
The majority are good, all it takes is the majority to do what he’s done
and shame on those that don’t,
Where is the police chief in all of this?

Here’s today’s story about Howard’s release. Some folks are angry, but they still can’t answer how a jury can find that Howard never discharged his gun, to have another jury on a second trial find that he committed attempted murder by shooting the gun that the first jury found he never fired.

Mindyme,
IMHO, Howard should have never been arrested. At the first trial, it could not be established if a bullet that fell from the officer’s bullet proof vest came from Howard’s gun. The bullet was mysteriously misplaced. There was argument that the cops were hit by friendly fire because of where THEY SAID they were position.

The cops explained shooting Howard in the back by saying he was turning in circles shooting at them. I would think that logically, it would mean that he would have been shoot in the front of his body at least a number of times close to the shots in his back. 21 times in the back with 7 shots elsewhere indicates that Howard was standing still and not turning in circles when being shot in the back.

It’s been a long journey for him, and I’m very happy that he is now out of prison and with his family.

I have to give this cop a medal! at least he actually attended to his 99yo victim after he tried to murder him unlike the pigs in cleveland when they murdered the little kid. and the other cops didn’t slam the old woman to the ground & hog tie her for being having the nerve to be concerned & praying to god.
I can hardly tell but it appears that the victim is white & the pig is black? Not sure, I could just be ‘racebaiting’ LOL IDK..and I don’t know where my compassion has gone lately but I’m not really impressed with the pig’s boohooing either.
this is absolute bullshit!

Shannon,
And at least the woman wasn’t arrested for interfering. I think that officer was sincerely shocked and upset that he mistook a walking cane for a shotgun. That’s doesn’t make it right, however.

When I saw the video, I didn’t pay attention to the races of the parties until the comfort cop showed up, who is Black. He is the one that told the shooting cop that he did what had to be done. No, he didn’t have to shoot. It was not necessary. The point is that there are officers who see non-existent threats and shoot while yelling commands. When they are on the street, no one, no matter race, gender or age, is safe.

Maybe — just maybe — that officer learned that bullets are intended to kill or seriously wound, and once that trigger is pulled, there’s no calling them back.

hey the comment thingy on wordpress changed! could be old one but new update for me cuz i’m setting up another computer.

well i’m impressed that he didn’t just leave him there to bleed to death. but
I’m not in anyway convinced the shooter has learned anything. the whining& sniveling sounds fake& dramatized. I don’t think most ppl are compelled to make all kinds of excuses when we’re truly remorseful.

reminds me of the other cop we saw recently, conveniently caught on dash cam wailing after he killed someone.
it was just that the killing part was not caught on video, unfortunately i’m sure.
I don’t believe him either. I don’t believe either one of these cops reasonably assessed the situ.

I think they are literally playing cops & robbers- Mindlessly. with ZERO sense of morality, duty or honor & ZERO critical thinking. It’s all a big fat ego tripping game to these cops.

Most of us realize that most cops NEVER KILL ANYONE! but we find out that too many of the ones that do kill are on their second, third kill &/or excessive force lawsuit. they should’ve been gone after a single legit complaint against them.
that should be cause for immediate termination, right after their criminal conviction, so they don’t get to apply to another PD or the opportunity to resign&/or retire and collect pensions they no longer deserve.

Excuse me, but (… clearing throat …) that would be York SOUTH Carolina, not NC.

[That’s not to say that it COULDN’T happen in NC. But with all the budget slashes by our Neanderthal government here in NC, I’d be surprised if dashboard cameras exist here at all or, if they exist, that they are functional and there our cops educated enough to know how to use them!]

LOL@Annie. Know what? The first article I read said South Carolina. The second said North Carolina. Just goes to show that when it comes to cities, I don’t know south from north. LOL!. Thanks for setting that straight. I’ll make the correction.

He’s like a modern day Serpico (for those of you old enough to remember that old movie that just stays with you throughout life)! But thank heavens he got out of police work before getting shot by his co-workers.